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The growth market in walls: maximum security maximizes profits. But there's a price

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Perimeter intrusion-detection systems, marketed by companies such as the Magal Group, comprise a rapidly growing economic segment because of security problems ranging from a 250-mile barrier being constructed around the West Bank to airports, maximum-security prisons, nuclear facilities, utilities and military bases.

Author: Sterling, Bruce
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Wired
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1059-1028
Year: 2003
Israel, Strategy & planning, Product information, Marketing procedures, Public affairs, Palestine, Social aspects, Planning, Marketing, International aspects, Military aspects, International relations, Company marketing practices, Boundary disputes, Company business planning, West Bank, Arab-Israeli border conflicts, Magal Security Systems Ltd.

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The other war on terror: four ways we must protect the nation's electronic frontier

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Four ways are suggested to protect the nation's cyberdefenses. The threat is not only from rogue nations and stateless terrorists but also from scammers, spammers, phisphers and ID thieves attacking the populace on the whole.

Author: Sterling, Bruce
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Wired
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1059-1028
Year: 2004
Methods, National security, Cyberterrorism

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Dumb mobs: a million networked marchers on demand -- and a preview of the P2P political future

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The 2002 European Social Forum, an international protest movement held in Italy, exemplifies how modern-day technology-assisted activism functions to bring diverse groups together for political purposes.

Author: Sterling, Bruce
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Wired
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1059-1028
Year: 2003
Italy, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Political aspects, Technology application, Company systems management, Information management, 2002 AD, Political issue, Activism, Political protest, European Social Forum 2002

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